Based on our zero bug policy, this update focuses on bug fixes, security, and UX improvements for search filters, metadata, and the indexer. In addition, one of the merged pull requests may improve face recognition performance on smaller devices and with large libraries.

What is new?

• People: Improved update performance on MariaDB
• People: Improved contrast of person selection menu
• Albums: Private pictures are excluded from download as zip
• Search: Improved query parser for additional security
• Search: Added uid:... search filter to find photos by uid
• Search: keywords:... filter does not exclude stopwords anymore
• Index: Original filenames can be extracted from Exiftool JSON
• Index: More accurate and resilient handling of related files and photo stacks
• Live Photos: HEIF is used to create primary JPEG instead of a MOV still image
• Metadata: Reduced log level for missing Exif data from warn to info
• Metadata: Increased size of projection and color profile fields to 40 characters
• Backups: Improved help for config options and CLI commands
• Help: Fixed reverse proxy documentation links
• Config: Added Apple Video Toolbox hardware transcoding support for macOS
• Config: Added /opt/photoprism to search path for asset and storage folders